Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem

Abstract

moted by the black middle class as a means of advancing the race toward equality. On other occasions, however, he was less certain of the propriety and order of black home life. Du Bois shared with reformers of both races a concern that many residences in growing urban neighborhoods were so overcrowded that their occupants lacked privacy, causing them to be corrupted by lodgers or pushed out into commercialized public spaces where men and women freely mixed. Such anxieties were rarely supported by evidence of what actually happened in homes.^ Instead, reformers foUowed

De cifras, rostros y espacios: instituciones del orden y políticas de control en el sistema represivo franquista

“…8 Consideramos apropiado no limitar espacialmente nuestra propuesta de análisis, puesto que el proyecto represivo franquista impactó en las comunidades de manera diferente, como habrá ocasión de reseñar, y aunque a la altura de la década de 1930 el control social no era una práctica ajena a la ciudad, la guerra y la ocupación dibujaron en diversas latitudes un paisaje con tantas rupturas como continuidades. 9 Las secciones siguientes quedan emplazadas a presentar la renovación en los estudios sobre la represión franquista.…”

Teaching historical geography in the field

“…The topic which was developed, "Vice, surveillance, and the struggle for moral order in New York, c.1900 -c.1930", was inspired partly by a research project at the University of Sydney: "Black Metropolis: Harlem, 1815 -1930" (Robertson, 2009;Robertson, White, Garton, & White, 2012). This project has used a variety of historical sources -including newspaper reports, archival material and photographs -to trace the contours of everyday life in Harlem during the early part of the twentieth century.…”